Transcript WHAT MAKES SOMETHING ART?

DEFINING ART
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING A
WORK OF ART?
WHY IS THIS A WORK OF ART?
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
JOHANNES VERMEER 1665
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA ART
Does Art have to be truthful?
CHINESE PROPAGANDA ART
WILLEM DE KOONING - WOMAN
Can a painting be art if it disturbs and upsets us or if it looks ugly? Why or why not?
Would a realistic image be more powerful?
The Purpose(s) of Art
Michelangelo, The Creation of Man, 1511-12, Sistine Chapel
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To capture a perception of reality.
To teach or uplift the mind
To praise a spiritual power
To express emotion
To create beauty
To bind a community together
something else???
Skillful but is it Art?
SO……..
WHAT IS ART?
WHAT MAKES SOMETHING A
WORK OF ART?
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
1917
63 x 46 x 36 cm.
(25 x 18 x 14 in.)
Who decides what is Art?
Do-Ho Suh
Seoul Home/ L.A.
Home:Bathroom
2003, Silk
12’ x 20’ x 20’
Does it…
Capture reality?
Teach or uplift the
mind?
Express emotion?
Create beauty?
Bind a community
together?
Praise a spiritual
power?
DAMIEN HIRST
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the
Mind of Someone Living (1991).
TRACY EMIN
MY BED, 2001
Orlan:
Operation Reussie
Video, 1990
Steve McCurry
New York September 11, by Magnum
Photographers.
Marcus
Harvey
Myra
1995
Chris
Ofili
The Holy
Virgin
Mary
1996
Feeling uncomfortable yet?
Ron Mueck,
Untitled (boy),
1999 – 2001,
mixed media
with fiber glass
resin
CORNELIA PARKER
Wenda Gu
WENDA GU
United Nations Series:
Temple of Heaven
(China Monument),
1998
Installation with screens
of human hair. Approx. 24
x 30 x 27 ft. (732 x
914 x 823 cm).
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
My baby brother could do that……. Is this Art?
Cy Twombly
Painting "Ohne Titel (Roma)" 1969
Why is this
considered
to be Art?
Yellow,orange,red Mark Rothko
Martin Creed
‘The lights Going On and Off’
So where do we go from here? What is to
become of art?
“I hope in this millennium art will become
something more important than a
spectacle. I hope that art will get closer to
the people in general, not just something
for the specialists…I hope art will become
more spiritual… I hope it can fill the big
emptiness of humanity today” Ernesto
Neto, Brazilian sculptor
“If you can piss, you can paint.”
Pablo Picasso
Keith Haring
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul,
provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates
humanity instead of manipulating it.
What is Art?
to adorn,
to beautify,
to express,
to illustrate,
to mediate,
to persuade,
to record,
to redefine reality,
and to redefine art.
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What is Art?
What makes something a work of
Art?
What constitutes good art?
How is good art recognised and decided upon?
Who decides what is Art?
Write your own personal definition with examples of
artworks and other peoples’ quotations to provide
evidence for your argument.
Remember to acknowledge your sources.